As white as snow. As red as a beet. As quiet as a mouse. These are familiar figures of speech specifically defined as similes. A simile compares two dissimilar things using “like” or “as.” One goal of ...

Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a ...

Many years ago I heard some marvelous advice from the co-director of the UCLA Writing Project, Jane Hancock, about choosing the right words. She was speaking of prose, but I think it’s extra-good ...